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A '''disambiguation page''' is one that provides links to other articles in order to prevent confusion. This is done when two or more articles share the same title. For example, [[Marshal]] is a disambiguation page which provides links to [[Marshal (BattleMech)]] and [[Marshal (rank)]]. 

A separate disambiguation page is often set up when there is one dominant usage of a word, but multiple secondary usages. This disambiguation page would then be linked to from the primary article.

Sometimes there is only one secondary usage, so a link is created from the primary article to the secondary article without needing a disambiguation page. An example of this is [[Pella]]. Since the dominant usage is for the planet, that article is there without any parenthetical notations. The main article then links to [[Pella (Aerospace Fighter class)]], as it is much less frequently used.

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